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@article{AndrewsHanna2007MeridianiPA,
  title={Meridiani Planum and the global hydrology of Mars},
  author={Jeffrey C. Andrews‐Hanna and Roger J. Phillips and Maria T. Zuber},
  journal={Nature},
  year={2007},
  volume={446},
  pages={163-166},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4428510}
}

It is demonstrated that Meridiani is one of the few regions of currently exposed ancient crust predicted to have experienced significant groundwater upwelling and evaporation, and the evaporite formation coincided with a transition to more arid conditions that increased the relative impact of a deep-seated, global-scale hydrology on the surface evolution.

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